This month we spoke with Marijana Bosnjak, CEO and Head of Board of Kino Urania from the town of Osijek, in the Eastern part of Croatia. Cinema Urania/Kino Urania was a part of a company established in 1901, which had six single screens cinemas during 1910 and 1991.

This month we spoke with Marijana Bosnjak, CEO and Head of Board of Kino Urania from the town of Osijek, in the Eastern part of Croatia. Cinema Urania/Kino Urania was a part of a company established in 1901, which had six single screens cinemas during 1910 and 1991.

FNE together with Europa Distribution is launching a new chapter of the Distributor of the Month section. This time we focus on new strategies in film distribution and the importance of domestic film festivals in releasing new titles. We will also be looking at what distributors can do in order to prevent piracy.

We are excited to announce our selection for the third edition of US in Progress Paris. The following filmmakers/ producers will be invited to attend and present their soon-to-be-finished projects on June 11th 2014 in Paris in the frame of the Champs-Elysees Film Festival:

As a part of the programme “Poland – Turkey 2014” launched by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, the organizers of the Etiuda&Anima International Film Festival will take a pedagogical tour to Turkey.

SOFIA: Pavlina Jeleva, Bulgarian correspondent for Film New Europe, has been nominated by the Bulgarian Film Academy for the annual Best Critic award.

From May, 7th to 17thin Peru, there will be shown a wide variety of films from Central, Eastern Europe and Caucasus in theatres and cultural centres of the capital, Lima, and in other Peruvian cities as Arequipa, Lambayeque, Cuzco and Pucallpa. Most of these films have been recently awarded on important international festivals as Berlin, Sundance, Toronto, Karlovy Vary, Rotterdam and London, among others.

Joanna, the first crowdfunded Polish documentary, will receive a cinema screening in Prague in May.

Renowned Polish director, screenwriter and producer Krzysztof Zanussi will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 13th edition of the Transilvania International Film Festival (May 30-June 8).

Six first time directors and six second time directors will be competing this year for the Transilvania International Film Festival (May 30 – June 8, Cluj-Napoca, Romania) trophies.